{"id":26141,"date":"2018-07-31T19:27:48","date_gmt":"2018-08-01T00:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=26141"},"modified":"2018-07-31T19:55:29","modified_gmt":"2018-08-01T00:55:29","slug":"the-super-engineered-1976-firebird-runs-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=26141","title":{"rendered":"The Super Engineered Firebird Runs For The First Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ProPontiac-1974-Firebird-with-a-400-ci-V8-27.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"26155\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?attachment_id=26155\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ProPontiac-1974-Firebird-with-a-400-ci-V8-27.jpg?fit=1800%2C1200&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1800,1200\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"ProPontiac 1974 Firebird with a 400 ci V8 27\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;ProPontiac 1974 Firebird with a 400 ci V8&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ProPontiac-1974-Firebird-with-a-400-ci-V8-27.jpg?fit=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ProPontiac-1974-Firebird-with-a-400-ci-V8-27.jpg?resize=600%2C400&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"ProPontiac 1974 Firebird with a 400 ci V8\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-26155\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ProPontiac-1974-Firebird-with-a-400-ci-V8-27.jpg?resize=600%2C400&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ProPontiac-1974-Firebird-with-a-400-ci-V8-27.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ProPontiac-1974-Firebird-with-a-400-ci-V8-27.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ProPontiac-1974-Firebird-with-a-400-ci-V8-27.jpg?w=1800&amp;ssl=1 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been nine years since this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.propontiac.com\/\">1974 Pontiac Firebird<\/a> was on the road. The Swedish owner spent that time designing and building the lightest and best performing 2nd generation Firebird he could. Since our <a href=\"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=12741\">last update<\/a> the owner completed an incredible amount of custom work from the fully independent suspension designed in CAD down to the custom battery holder. Just this month the car was taken off the jackstands for a short test drive, powered by the built 400 ci V8. To appreciate the amount of thought and effort that went into this project please scroll thorugh the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.propontiac.com\/blog\/\">build blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/3LYQZ6oeSas\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ProPontiac-1974-Firebird-with-a-400-ci-V8-28.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"26156\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?attachment_id=26156\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ProPontiac-1974-Firebird-with-a-400-ci-V8-28.jpg?fit=1800%2C1200&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1800,1200\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"ProPontiac 1974 Firebird with a 400 ci V8 28\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;ProPontiac 1974 Firebird with a 400 ci V8&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ProPontiac-1974-Firebird-with-a-400-ci-V8-28.jpg?fit=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ProPontiac-1974-Firebird-with-a-400-ci-V8-28.jpg?resize=600%2C400&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"ProPontiac 1974 Firebird with a 400 ci V8\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-26156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ProPontiac-1974-Firebird-with-a-400-ci-V8-28.jpg?resize=600%2C400&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ProPontiac-1974-Firebird-with-a-400-ci-V8-28.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ProPontiac-1974-Firebird-with-a-400-ci-V8-28.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ProPontiac-1974-Firebird-with-a-400-ci-V8-28.jpg?w=1800&amp;ssl=1 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ProPontiac-1974-Firebird-with-a-400-ci-V8-29.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"26157\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?attachment_id=26157\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ProPontiac-1974-Firebird-with-a-400-ci-V8-29.jpg?fit=1800%2C1200&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1800,1200\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"ProPontiac 1974 Firebird with a 400 ci V8 29\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;ProPontiac 1974 Firebird with a 400 ci V8&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ProPontiac-1974-Firebird-with-a-400-ci-V8-29.jpg?fit=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ProPontiac-1974-Firebird-with-a-400-ci-V8-29.jpg?resize=600%2C400&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"ProPontiac 1974 Firebird with a 400 ci V8\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-26157\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ProPontiac-1974-Firebird-with-a-400-ci-V8-29.jpg?resize=600%2C400&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ProPontiac-1974-Firebird-with-a-400-ci-V8-29.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ProPontiac-1974-Firebird-with-a-400-ci-V8-29.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ProPontiac-1974-Firebird-with-a-400-ci-V8-29.jpg?w=1800&amp;ssl=1 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ProPontiac-1974-Firebird-with-a-400-ci-V8-30.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"26158\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?attachment_id=26158\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ProPontiac-1974-Firebird-with-a-400-ci-V8-30.jpg?fit=1800%2C1200&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1800,1200\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"ProPontiac 1974 Firebird with a 400 ci V8 30\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;ProPontiac 1974 Firebird with a 400 ci V8&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ProPontiac-1974-Firebird-with-a-400-ci-V8-30.jpg?fit=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ProPontiac-1974-Firebird-with-a-400-ci-V8-30.jpg?resize=600%2C400&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"ProPontiac 1974 Firebird with a 400 ci V8\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-26158\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ProPontiac-1974-Firebird-with-a-400-ci-V8-30.jpg?resize=600%2C400&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ProPontiac-1974-Firebird-with-a-400-ci-V8-30.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ProPontiac-1974-Firebird-with-a-400-ci-V8-30.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ProPontiac-1974-Firebird-with-a-400-ci-V8-30.jpg?w=1800&amp;ssl=1 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.propontiac.com\/\">ProPontiac<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/propontiacdotcom\/\">ProPontiac FB page<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been nine years since this 1974 Pontiac Firebird was on the road. The Swedish owner spent that time designing and building the lightest and best performing 2nd generation Firebird he could. Since our last update the owner completed an incredible amount of custom work from the fully independent suspension designed in CAD down to&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=26141\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Super Engineered Firebird Runs For The First Time<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":26145,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-firebird"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ProPontiac-1976-Firebird-with-a-400-ci-V8-27.jpg?fit=1800%2C1200&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12741,"url":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=12741","url_meta":{"origin":26141,"position":0},"title":"The Super Engineered 1974 Firebird","author":"swaptastic","date":"November 11, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"What happens when an engineer decides to build the lightest and best performing 1974 Pontiac Firebird he can? Well you get a lot of CAD design, aluminum, CNC'd parts and an amazing amount of custom parts. When we last wrote about this project in the summer of 2015 the owner\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Firebird&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Firebird","link":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?cat=177"},"img":{"alt_text":"ProPontiac 1976 Pontiac Firebird with a 400 ci V8","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/ProPontiac-1976-Pontiac-Firebird-with-a-400-ci-V8-10.jpg?fit=960%2C640&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/ProPontiac-1976-Pontiac-Firebird-with-a-400-ci-V8-10.jpg?fit=960%2C640&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/ProPontiac-1976-Pontiac-Firebird-with-a-400-ci-V8-10.jpg?fit=960%2C640&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/ProPontiac-1976-Pontiac-Firebird-with-a-400-ci-V8-10.jpg?fit=960%2C640&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":3850,"url":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=3850","url_meta":{"origin":26141,"position":1},"title":"Building a 1974 Pontiac Firebird Into a Pro-touring Monster","author":"swaptastic","date":"May 20, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"A gentleman in Sweden is combining his engineering mind with his auto enthusiast heart to transform a 1974 Pontiac Firebird into a race car that he can still drive to get ice cream. The project started in 2009 and expected to be finished in 2016. 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The owner sent it to V8 Speed & Resto Shop in Red Bud, Illinois for some performance upgrades. 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The build starts with a 451 ci LSx V8 sitting in the engine bay making 593 horsepower and 518 lb-ft of torque to the wheels. The engine features forged pistons, ported LS7 heads, custom camshaft, FAST 102 intake, 65\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Firebird&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Firebird","link":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?cat=177"},"img":{"alt_text":"1989 Firebird Formula with a 451 ci LSx V8","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/1989-Firebird-Formula-with-a-451-ci-LSx-V8-01.jpg?fit=800%2C533&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/1989-Firebird-Formula-with-a-451-ci-LSx-V8-01.jpg?fit=800%2C533&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/1989-Firebird-Formula-with-a-451-ci-LSx-V8-01.jpg?fit=800%2C533&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/1989-Firebird-Formula-with-a-451-ci-LSx-V8-01.jpg?fit=800%2C533&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":52527,"url":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=52527","url_meta":{"origin":26141,"position":4},"title":"1970 Firebird with a 1200 hp Twin-Turbo Pontiac V8","author":"swaptastic","date":"February 20, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"All Speed Customs built this 1970 Pontiac Firebird at their company in Muskegon, Michigan. 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Back then the car was on a dyno were the built 400 ci Pontiac V8 made 500+ horsepower. The V8 features Eagle forged pistons, Carillo forged rods, ported heads, dry sump, and custom camshaft. 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